Cutting off the po'o-Part One
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Part One: Two Hawaiian educators are fired and a community grieves. Anon-profit is also their Interim Local School Board, HookakooCorporation. They come to explain their non-negotiable decision.
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Added on 11/24/10
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Aloha e Friends:
I am not sure if these local events are explained well enough in myvideos and essays for those beyond Hawaii, but they are causing the"rulers and shakers" here some headaches. A click on any of the YouTubeseries will help us. And if you wish to learn more there is longer rawcoverage and press coverage, etc.
Please share these with anyone there that might be interested in howaggressive "globalization" is endangering "indigenous" cultures,especially here in Hawaii. [Of course, Hawaii was an independentkingdom and an advanced civilization, but not in the Akaka Bill.] So astruggle to save a local Hawaiian charter school (942 students) is beingseen here as action to save a vanishing culture.

YouTube -- “Cutting off the Po’o” -- 3 part series:


Aloha nui loa,
George Williams
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  • I will try to come back to this site to up date and hopefully read other postings.
  • Not only have I viewed all the video's a bit earlier in the day, I too was there. I don't know George Williams too much for I was always too busy to have a sit and talk session. Much of what had transpired was the career goals for a transition team, from my observation they have undermined Glenn Kila and Clarence DeLude from the onset. They saw a cash crop and wanted in on the corprate game. This would have worked had they been there with their goals and daily routine, but they spent years nesting their career goals as oppose to teaching benchmarks and standards. Now realizing after all these years in order to meet their career goals, they need resources and teacher training. Both training and resources are separate and apart from students inclassrooms. The students are constant and each student brings in monies into the institution whereas teachers training and resources taps into these funds. Teachers career goals once attained will jump ship eventually to other schools.

    In the mean time social security numbers that are need based will be stolen and used to bring in the cash needed to train and purchase resources materials and trainers. The difference is the teachers goals rise to upper levels, however, that social security numbers remain embedded on a need data base. That child is just an attachment to that data base along with failing test scores.

    The children will fall to the side or slip from society without a trace. Lot's of coverup for mistakes, lots of crevices in Waianae to hide the poverty stricken and worse yet lots of instituions take in and spit out broken beings. These youngsters are so confused and a bit scared about their future for they senese somemthing is wrong, but don't have the experience to put it all together.

    Poverty children bring betray to ones own demise and this problem is the hardest to unravel when it is entrenced.

    Given the children's innocence of betrayal, adult career goals, and need for cash to purchase resources where by this end game does nothing, but destroy lives was this corporate take over preventable? Most certainly this was prevented. Had the program remained in place--these youngsters would have been able to manage to stay in Waianae well into their adulthoold and raise children of their own. In the old, and now destroyed program these youngsters would have contributed a lot of passion to the Waianae community. It was because their classroom was a mixture of Corporate learning and Aina consciousness. These children given the opportunity would have contributed to their community some form of local problem solving mixture, unlike what it is today a total disconnect from poverty and poor. A bad cycle.
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